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System76 Releases COSMIC Alpha 2 Desktop Packages


Following the release of the COSMIC Alpha desktop in early August, System76 is closing out September by issuing the second alpha release of their Rust-based open-source desktop environment.

COSMIC Alpha 2 is now available for their in-house Pop!_OS Linux distribution as well as having packages available for other Linux distributions like Fedora, NixOS, Arch, openSUSE, Serpent OS, and CachyOS. The COSMIC Alpha 2 release brings new options to COSMIC Settings are power and battery life management, new sound input/output device settings, new wired and wireless network options, new window management features, and a variety of bug fixes. Download information and more details on the COSMIC Alpha 2 release via the System76 blog.

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